.VESTS A.VD EGGS Oh AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 793 



lie thiiiks we may fairly assume it breeds in the latter localities, aaid 

 that the laiger series of eggs obtained by Svvinhoe (" Ibis," 1879, p. iril) 

 are referable to this species. 



It was j^-obably this species (mentioned in (iould as 0. iiuiriKifm) 

 that Gilbert found abmidant on most of the sandy points and bays in 

 the Port Dai-win district. Mr. Tom Carter shot a specimen at Point 

 Cloates, Western Australia, about the 1st November, 1897, another 

 on the 4th October, 1899. 



609. — OcHTHODROMUs MONGOLUS, Pallas. 

 MONGOLIAN SAND DOTTREL. 



Figure. — Gould : Birds of Europe, pi. 290 ; also Gould : Birds ul 

 Australia, fol., vol. vi., pi. 19 (right hand figure). 



Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xxiv., p. 223. 



Geographical Distributian. — Northern Tenitory (probably), Queens- 

 land, New South Wales, and South Austraha; also New Guinea, the 

 Moluccas, Philippines, &c., passing through China on migTation to 

 breed in Eastern Siberia and other localities. 



]\'est and Eggs. — Undescribed. 



Observations. — Henry Seebohm ^observes that the Mongolian Sand 

 Dottrel is nearest related to 0. geoffroyi, but it is also very nearly allied 

 to oiu' Double-banded Dottrel (0. bicincfiisj. It breeds in Asia from 

 Eastern Turkestan to the valley of the Amoor. 



Colonel Legge mentions that Dr. Adams foimd the Mongohan Sand 

 Plover breeding in Ladakh, the mountainous portion of Thibet boimd- 

 ing Caslunir on the east. Here he found the young at the Chimourarec 

 Lake, but he was too late to obtain eggs. It breeds in May and June. 



610.— -^fiiALiTis iiiA'n(()i,..\. Liiuiicus. — (507) 

 RINGED DOTTREL. 



Figure. — Gould: Birds of Great Britain, vol. iv., pi. 41. 

 Referenre. — Cat. Birds Brit. ^lus., vol. xxiv., p. i^d. 

 Previous Descriptions of Eggs. — Various. 



Geographical Distribution. — Arctic North America, throughout 

 Europe generally, wintering in Africa; eastward to Lake Baikal, and 

 extending, rarely, to North-west India ; New South Wales (accidental). 



Nest. — Sometimes none, but generally a mere depression amongst 

 tufts of long grass, or scratched in shingle, with a few shells in the 



